laying the groundwork right now to fully repudiate trumpism. instead they are playing ftse with it, trying to woo their voters, trying to have it both ways. donald trump is going to run again. and if they continue to act this way he could be their nominee. which would be a tragedy. betsy thank you for starting us off. tim and jeremy are sticking around. when we come back, so much losing, an investigation on trump uncovering millions of losses in his hotel. plus, a rare instance of commonity from democrats and a couple in the republican party, their target, mitch mcconnell and the gop that would rather turn on each other than get serious about avoiding economic catastrophe. again, more disinformation.
i suspect they are going to return him to office. joe manchin in west virginia, united states senator, former governor of the state, he s known in the state. he s probably looked at more in the state as a west virginian than a democrat. plus you see the imagery of the rifle, i would say the use of it to shoot legislation is probably irresponsible for a responsible gun owner to be able to go and do. what you do see across the country as we head into the fall campaign, i think is a rising wave that s going to repudiate trumpism. i think this is a profoundly significant election. i think people in this country understand what s at stake. i think the majority opposes the tone, the meanness, the cruelty, the vileness, the corruption of it all before you get a single issue and we re seeing that in the generic ballots.
invited to the funeral. here s how former mccain adviser steve schmidt summed it up during our coverage yesterday. it was a fundamental rebuke to the vileness, the corruption, the self-centeredness, selfishness, cruelty that we see emanate from the oef office in the form of president donald j. trump everyday. the choice the country faces in a couple monos about whether to repudiate trumpism or validate is an essential one and you saw today the argument being made for its repudiation. joining us now is the author of winners take all, the elite charade of changing the world michelle bernard, president of the bernard center for women, politics and public policy and back with me, jonathan capehart and michael steele. the washington post
i m going to start out by agreeing with something that steve bannon said. this midterm election, which i believe is the most important midterm election in american history, it is a referendum on donald trump. the country is either going to repudiate trumpism or embrace it. as a business proposition what steve bannon is saying correctly is if the election were tomorrow, you could see losses in the republican house of 25, 30, as high as 40, 45 seats. basically what he s doing is fleecing donors saying i will be able to make this race something other than a referendum about donald trump. i will be able to put it back on the democrats. that s not going to happen. but i suspect he will raise some money about it. what s true about the tax cut is it added a trillion dollars to the national debt and did nothing to lift wages of income for working people in this
u.k. and italy, constantly getting material support from other right wing fasish sympathizing wings abroad. he is a terrorist sympathizer and a danger to the american public. steve schmidt? i m going to start out by agreeing with something that steve bannon said. this midterm election, which i believe is the most important midterm election in american history, it is a referendum on donald trump. the country is either going to repudiate trumpism or embrace it. as a business proposition what steve bannon is saying correctly is if the election were tomorrow, you could see losses in the republican house of 25, 30, as high as 40, 45 seats. basically what he s doing is fleecing donors saying i will be able to make this race something other than a referendum about donald trump. i will be able to put it back on